Typing long or numerous text messages to colleagues and clients on your mobile phone can be time-consuming. A growing number of email clients are helping streamline text message exchanges by offering SMS capability. Yahoo enables sending and receiving SMS messages via your computer using Yahoo’s Messenger feature. Using a standard computer keyboard, instead of the smaller one on your phone, can help you compose more text messages more efficiently.

Step 1

Sign in to your Yahoo account and navigate to your inbox.

Step 2

Click on the “Compose Message” drop-down menu and select “SMS” to open the “Yahoo Messenger” window.

Step 3

Enter the name of a contact in your address book into the blank field. If the person you want to send a text message to is not listed in your address book, select the appropriate country code from the drop-down menu and type the contact’s mobile number into the blank field.

Step 4

Type your message into the blank text box.

Step 5

Press “Enter” to send the message. Yahoo displays your messages and the contact’s replies in the conversation area of the Messenger window.

Tip

Right-click on a contact name when signed into Yahoo Messenger and select “SMS” to send a text message to that contact. Alternatively, click on the phone icon next to a mobile number when viewing a contact’s detail page within your address book.

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Aksana Nikolai is a graduate of the New York Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in language studies and international affairs. Nikolai is currently working in online marketing and communications. She has been writing since 2008, specializing in made-for-Web content and maintaining her fashion and beauty blog.